Here’s why ChatGPT needs to know how to make bioweapons

My bingo card for this month did not include OpenAI telling the world that future frontier AI models coming to ChatGPT will know how to make bioweapons or novel biothreats, but here we are. We can add this capability to the growing list of issues that give us reason to worry about a future where AI reaches superintelligence.

However, it’s not as bad as it sounds. OpenAI is giving us this warning now to explain what it’s doing to prevent future versions of ChatGPT from helping bad actors devise bioweapons.